Library Corner
(notes and links compiled
by Sarah Shackelford)
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Montesquieu
Links for Readers:
Overbooked - a web site for ravenous readers>
The New York Times Book Review
Good Morning America's "Read This" Book Club
Penguin Putnam Reading Group Guides
Award Winning Children's Literature
Children's
Literature Web Guide
Reference:
NewsLink
(directory of newspapers,
magazines, and radio)
Internet
Public Library
(Source of tons of good
general reference)
History, International Studies, Philosophy, and Religion
Merriam Webster Dictionary Online
Ditto.com - a visual search of the Web
Babel Fish Translation Service
For Librarians:
Documents in Information Science
Professional Sites for Librarians
Internet Library for Librarians
Some Favorite Libraries
and Library Schools:
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Clermont County Public Library
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
University
Libraries
(University of Cincinnati)
The
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois
at Champaign-Urbana
Bits and pieces.....
(news, current articles
of interest, tutorials, etc.)
(This page of links was
created for my Beginning French students, but may be of interest to others
since it contains general study tips, learning style inventories, etc.)
Analyzing
the News - Resources and Lesson Plan Ideas
Sarah K. Shackelford
2003-2005
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens
our most fatal
tendency--the
belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom
More
Quotations about books, libraries, information.....
(Compiled by Public Library
of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County)